Over the years we have worked to become one of the reference training agencies for the Veneto regional government and the Italian National Transplant Centre, and our commitment has contributed to the training of Italian healthcare organisations involved in the donation and transplant process. In operational terms, our Technical Scientific Committee, which includes prominent Veneto transplant specialists, develops a specific programme to facilitate the constant organisational and cultural progress of the transplant system, for submission to our Management Board. In the period from 2000 to 2008, FITOT carried out an extensive and detailed training programme, focussing more and more programmes on the dissemination of basic knowledge about methods for organ and tissue harvesting and transplant, the diagnosis of brain death, the pathology of the donation-transplant process, relationships with donors and their families, and on technical and healthcare innovations in the donation and transplant process.  For 2010, FITOT has developed a new training programme, and one of the aspects the training courses developed in collaboration with the Regional Transplant Centre focus on is kidney transplants from living donors, designed for healthcare personnel working in nephrology departments throughout our region.  Between 2000 and 2008 we organised over one hundred training courses and regional and national meetings for healthcare workers, and seminars for lecturers and voluntary associations, involving over 4,000 people.